The Role of Mosque in Building Resilient Communities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdur Rehman Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Resilient Communities

scholarly journals Editorial: Challenging issues in risk governance and control

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Stefania Sylos Labini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The leitmotif of this fourth issue of the journal seems to revolve around the role of finance in the current context of climate change. Concerns about the disastrous effects of climate change affect many areas. The rapidity of climate change requires urgent action from governments, industries and businesses to build more resilient communities and reduce the impact of disasters. The most recent example is the disaster that is affecting Australia, with fires fueled by record temperatures and entrenched drought conditions. Coordinated national action is critical for managing the impacts of this phenomenon. Although the most immediate financial impact of catastrophic events regards the insurance sector, the whole world of finance is affected by these phenomena. In this context, areas of growing interest for scholars at the international level are sustainable finance, corporate social responsibility and insurance.

scholarly journals Disaster Management and Role of Academic Institutions in Nepal: Current Status and Way Forward

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Ramesh Raj Pant ◽  
Kiran Bishwakarma ◽  
Archana Ghimire ◽  
Kripa Shrestha ◽  
Rejina Maskey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Status ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policies And Programs

The intense natural disasters have been causing the great loss of life and properties in Nepal. This study attempts to figure out the status and role of Nepalese academia for the contribution of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). The methodology adopted for the study is reviewing the literature, policies, and academic documents including university curricula. The study highlighted that the constitution of Nepal 2015 and DRRM Act 2017 have provided ample opportunities via several legal provisions for federal, provincial, and local government to make their own modalities for making a disaster-resilient society. The universities and higher academic institutions are responsible for sound knowledge-based research activities to address the issues of DRRM which could be directly adopted by different levels of governments in terms of their plans, policies, and programs. In this connection, attempts are being made by governments and academic institutions to develop disaster resilient communities by shifting the traditional way of just responding during disaster focusing on the disaster cycle. Precisely, ten major universities of Nepal have incorporated disaster components including preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation-related academic curricula in their undergraduate and graduate levels academic programs. Introducing the Environmental Health in Disaster, and Public Health and Disaster Engineering in Tribhuvan University and Pokhara University, respectively is one of the good initiatives taken by the academia. However, there is still room for improvement in terms of the integration of DRRM courses in the curricula of higher academic institutions for making disaster-resilient communities.

scholarly journals Covid19, lesson at vulnerability at Tacna – Perú: “The role of education at management risk in to building resilient communities at natural events”.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Martín Osorio Soto
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social Environmental

Abstract: The present article, it’s a descriptive study, about the circumstances and conditions of Sendai Framework implementation by de Disaster Risk Reduction and the application of Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) at enforcement to build resilient communities to disruptive events by natural origin at Tacna – Perú, in to world health emergency by the Covid19 pandemic. And the new – future social, environmental and sanitary stage, therefore to determine a new social and governance dynamic. Accordingly, to promote a new method to comprehension at risk scene and determinate to requirement to implementation a better reduction risk education in to community, to purpose a enhance the governance indicators; make a sustainable communities and strong institution by mean of transversal a interinstitutional alliances as for get accomplishment integral reduction risk goals and enforcement to vulnerability communities at Tacna – Perú.

scholarly journals THE UNIVERSITY AS AGENT OF CHANGE IN THE CITY: CO-CREATION OF LIVE COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sara ◽  
Matthew Jones
Keyword(s):  
Community Organization ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Civic Agency ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The University

Universities have a civic responsibility towards the cities of which they are a part. This is typically operationalised through Outreach and Engagement, which aims to share and apply the expertise and knowledge generated by the university with communities. The model is typically a one-direction path from the University to communities, but there is potential for the engagement to take on more of a two-way collaboration, in which there is an intent to generate new knowledge and enact positive change. This paper reflects on the practice of Hands-on-Bristol, a collective bringing community members, architects, trainee architects, and academics together to co-create projects. This practice is conceived as a form of Spatial Civic Agency that empowers a community organization to participate in making and re-making their places. Projects typically involve a process of co-creation, bringing into consciousness the conditions that shape a community’s place in their world and catalysing possibilities that seemingly cannot otherwise be unlocked. The paper analyses the process of the projects using four key civic agency concepts which identify a need to: Involve the citizen as co-creator; Engage with public and community places; Reconceptualise the role of the professional; and Understand democracy as a lived social and cultural experience grounded in everyday life. The analysis suggests that this participatory approach to education questions the primary focus of education as provider of practice-ready graduates and makes a place for the University as civic agent with transformative potential to co-create more sustainable, resilient communities.

Building Community Resilience Through Social Networking Sites

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam S. Belblidia
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Share Information

Online Social Networking Sites (SNS) enable collaborative information sharing and help build resilient communities in areas exposed to risk. This article reviews existing research on community vulnerability and resilience, and explores the role of communication in fostering strong community networks. The article draws upon examples of SNS used to share information and explores how such technology may be leveraged more effectively to provide communities with robust communication networks, thereby creating more resilient communities in areas at high risk of natural disasters.

scholarly journals Hillwalking and walk leading motivations, perceived benefits and the role of natural environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Morocza ◽  
J Frankham ◽  
L M Boddy ◽  
E Mahon ◽  
T A Stott
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Activity Measurements ◽  
Resilient Communities

Abstract Background Promoting the link between human and ecosystem health is crucial for building resilient communities. Hillwalking provides health benefits arising from physical activity and exposure to nature. Furthermore, it is likely to influence environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behaviour through connectedness to nature. This project aimed to explore 1) hillwalking and walk leading motivations and perceived benefits, and 2) the role of the environment and nature connectedness among walk leaders and walking holiday guests. Methods The first study was completed with seventeen volunteer walk leaders and used a mixed methods design: hillwalking interviews, physical activity measurements, location data and the Nature-relatedness scale. The second study involved five group interviews with the total of twenty-five guests on three different walking holidays. The qualitative data from both studies were analysed using a combined thematic and grounded theory approach and the results were merged with the quantitative data to explore the impacts of environmental factors. Results Primary motivations for hillwalking included pleasure, escape from everyday life pressures, to re-charge, being in nature, social inclusion and health. Emerging overarching themes such as balance and adaptation were reported as essential values for walking and were linked to nutritional, physical activity related and environmental aspects of health awareness. The perceived benefits positively impacted on engagement. Connectedness to nature was linked to environmental knowledge and attitudes which manifested in pro-environmental walking behaviour. Conclusions The pleasure arising from several aspects of hillwalking or walk leading was the drive for regular engagement, therefore a primary intrinsic motivation. The results imply that attending group walking holidays has the scope to increase environmental awareness and engagement in outdoor physical activity and could be considered as a promotion tool. Key messages The findings have the scope to inform future walking promotion programs and encourage long-term engagement by shifting the focus of promotion messages to intrinsic motivational factors. The results support that hillwalking can be used as a tool for combined health and environmental awareness promotion.

Health Care Institutions Step Up to Support Resilient Communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Health Initiative ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Community Input ◽  
Improve Patient

Chapter 9 explores the role of health care institutions in three distinct collaborations designed to reshape the health landscape. Presenting a private-sector perspective, Andrew Renda describes Humana’s commitment to its Bold Goal population health initiative, which draws on community input to craft interventions that help combat food insecurity, loneliness, and more. Nivedita Mohanty explains how a network of federally qualified health centers is developing tools to help practitioners improve patient care. And in a melding of health and economic interests, Catherine M. Baase details a partnership between a health collaborative and an alliance of business and economic development leaders in central Michigan.

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